West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-02-18

Lent begins Wednesday, Februa-
ry 23rd.
Judge T. c. Green has returned
home, from the Supreme Court Of
Appeals.
Since the Tiffin, O., disaster 800
different patents for railroad car
heating have been placed in the pat
ent Office.
The highest point in the State of
West Virginia is at Bayard, on the
new Davis railroad. That place is
$3.50 feet above the sea.
"Blakeley," the farm OF Col. R.
P. Chew, near this place, which has
been recently occupied by Mr.. A. r.
Brown, has been rented and is now
occupied by Mr.. H. j. Chamblin,
lately of Clarke county, Va.
Next Tuesday, the 22nd of Feb
ruary, 1887, the 155th anniversary
of the birthday of Geo. Washington
is also notable as the 18th anniver-
sary of the Inauguration of JEFF Da-
Wis as President of the G. S. A.
The Young Mems Christian Asso
citation, of West Virginia, Maryland
and the District of Columbia will
hold district conference at Shep
herdstown, this State, on Thursday,
February Oath, 1887, and contin-
ues three days.
On Sunday last west bound
freight train collided with an east
bound freight near Vanclevesville,
Berkeley county, on the B. d o. r.
r. A number of cars were destroy
ed. Engineer D. Manford and fire.
man Frank Dunn, of Martinsburg,
received injuries.
We learn that the right to use the
car replacer, lately patented by Capt.
Josh. Hamill, of Kearneysville, this
county, has been purchased by one
of the largest railroads Of the West,
for quite handsome sum. Mr.. Fl.
will also receive royalty on every
one manufactured by the company.
1t must be very provoking that a
gentleman refuses to notice black
guard. We cannot cowhide corpse.
Our time is too valuable to tramp
on pismires. There is natural an
tipathy between q sneak and gen
tleman.
Railroads give a pass to their
decoy ducks; sometimes it is called
courtesy" and sometimes it is
called a payment for publication Of
time table," but we notice they do
not give pass to papers like the
DEMOCRAT, whose opinions are not
offered to the highest bidder, and
which publish what railroad man
ayers wish kept from the people.
Miss Gallaher of this town is a
clerk in one of the departments in
Washington, pay 81, 400 or $1,000.
Mr.. Snyder of the Shepherdstown
Register, has brother in the Gov.
Printing Office, in Washington. Mr..
Colston of the Martinsburg States
man is postmaster. The father Of
Mr.. Ohley, of the Fairmont Iider,
is postmaster. o. S. Mckinney, pro
prietor Of the Grafton Standard is
McGraw's deputy. Mr.. Fleming,
proprietor of the Morgantown Post,
has a lucrative position under Nc
Graw. OF course these papers do
what little they can to misrepresent
a paper like the DEMOCRAT, whose
opinions arc not for sale.
Mr.. Jno. H. Strider died suddenly
at his residence in this county last
Friday night. He was in town Fri
day evening and although he had
been quite sick for several days con-
sidered himself safely on the road to
recovery. Mr.. Strider was a man of
wonderful energy and was always
ready to accommodate his friends
and always willing to assist those
in distress. Few men in this county
were better known. He was buried
on Sunday evening in the Edge Hill
Cemetery and his remains we're fol-
lowed to their resting place by an
unusually large number Of people
from the country and town. The
SPIRIT said:
Mr.. Strider was q man of very
strong mind, full of enterprise. in
dustry and public spirit. and one Of
the best known men in Jefferson
county. He was q successful farmer,
and the condition Of his beautiful
farm is a monument to his skill in this
line. He believed in farming rs a
good and paying business h had
occupied important positions sclerk
in the departments at Washington
before the war, and for many years
past be has been reporter for this
State to the Agricultural Bureau.
About a year ago he lost his gifted
son Rev. DR.. j. P Strider, and soon
after that time he connected himself
with the church and devoted mnch